(Adds details). COLOMBO, April 18 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee hit a record low of 156.50 per dollar on Wednesday as importers’ demand for dollars weighed on the local currency, dealers said. The move was aggravated by a lack of dollar sales by exporters due to extended holidays, dealers …
NEW DELHI: Seven-time champions India have been drawn in Group B with Maldives and Sri Lanka during the official draw of the 2018 SAFF Cup Football … As well as winning a record seven times, India have been runners up three times while Afghanistan, B…
New Delhi, April 18 (PTI) Seven-time champions India have been drawn in Group B with Maldives and Sri Lanka at during the official draw of the 2018 SAFF Cup Football tournament. In group A, the tournament hosts Bangladesh, will go head-to-head with Nep…
India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Malta together have promised to provide a total of $5 million of capital to the scheme, which has been dubbed the “Commonwealth Small States Trade Finance Facility”. Speaking at the roundtable event, Sri Lankan Finance M…
COLOMBO (Sports Desk) – Sri Lankan cricket board is likely to hire former Pakistani Spin master Mushtaq Ahmed as spin bowling coach after the retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan. Although Sri Lankan team already has a ready-made coach in the form of Ran…
UN-Habitat is currently assessing the spatial dynamics of Sri Lanka’s urbanisation. The analysis is being conducted across the country’s 9 provincial capitals for the period 1995-2017. The project is on-going, with results to be published later this year in the State of Sri Lankan Cities Report, but the data …
The facility opens opportunities for around 5000 products of 120 developing countries to be imported to the US without tariffs. The Ministry added that this measure further strengthens ties with the world’s largest trade partner. The US became the leading buyer of Lankan exports last year. Sri Lanka’s total …
In keeping with the traditions of the National New Year, employees of Leo Burnett Sri Lanka, Arc Worldwide Sri Lanka, MSL Sri Lanka, Publicis Sri Lanka, Starcom Sri Lanka and Saatchi and Saatchi Sri Lanka which forms Publicis Communications in Sri Lank…
ENGLAND’S tours of Sri Lanka and the West Indies will be broadcast on talkSPORT – as BBC lost the audio rights for an oversees tour for the first time since 2005. The free-to-air rights cover the Tests, ODIs and T20s for the tours which start in Sri Lanka in October and then continue in the Caribbean in …
The Government of Sri Lanka and the Government of Dominica decided to establish Diplomatic Relations between the two countries with effect from April 17 following the signing of Agreement by Dr.Amrith Rohan Perera, Ambassador and Permanent Representati…